Interesting Project

[Madgwick]

Well I've got a handful of pedals that I've been thinking about putting in one over sized housing each with its own individual power and footswitch.  Just something to clean up my pedal board basically, I just have a handful of questions as I'm pretty new to all of this.  I've built a fuzz face in the past thats about my extent of playing with pedals.  Basically I want to take all my effects loop pedals and see if I can hard wire all of them and true bypass them as well.  I have a Boss Tuner then a MXR Phase 90 followed up with a Boss CE-5, and a Boss DD6.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to put the tuner in the housing with the display and everything so that might stay out.  But what I want to end up with is individual switches, remount the boards and pots, then if possible hardwire the output/input jacks to each board except the initial input jack and final output jack so I only have to run 1 cable between them, I have a power supply that would individual power each pedal and for the most part it will be simple transfers I believe.  If anyone has any ideas too feel free to chime in.

[jkokura]

That's a very good project, and likely something you can accomplish. The enclosure is the biggest detail - have you got one or are you looking for one? Also, I think you can easily power all of those from one jack with all the wiring on the inside - multiple effect powering is pretty common in these big rehouses. Take a look at some of the effects in the pictures thread entitled "big effects" and you'll see some good examples.

Jacob

[Madgwick]

I'm debating using a Hammond 1411 enclosure or possibly a peavey 5150 footswitch housing, my friend has a broken one he's trying to dig it up for me.  I'll look for the multi power thread, but I'm not worried about individual power supply since I'm not to keen on pedal modding or anything, just trying to make a simple transfer of everything to clean up my pedal board and keep people from seeing what I'm running.  I'm trying to have my pedal board consist of my Engl z-5 footswitch on bottom, this pedal & tuner pedal on top (its a 2 tier board I built) Then a Ts808/Orange Squeezer pedal I'm trying to build in the near future for in front of my amp.  As for the input output jacks can I just solder one output to another input?  I imagine that would work, if not I'll just keep the jack housed inside with a short jumper cable, but ideally I don't want this.  Also I'm not overly concerned with "True Bypass" but I don't know how I would wire the boss pedals to the switch, however I assume searching would easily show me that. 

[Madgwick]

I don't want to start a new topic so hopefully someone chimes in on both the question above and what I'm gonna ask  Would it be possible to wire both an orange squeezer and tube screamer to the same input/output/switch and power supply?  I do have 18v outs on my power supply as well if that would be possible to run 18v to one dc jack then split the voltage to each board. 

[jacobyjd]

Not necessary to use 18v. You can run one power supply output to multiple effects, provided you don't exceed the current rating of the power supply. Since a TS and an OS will draw a relatively small amount of current (as most analog effects do), you can easily run both off a single 9v output on your supply.

[amptramp]

I have an old (1951) Minshall Model E tube organ that uses two rails with 5-pin sockets in place, one at the top and one at the bottom to carry power on one connector and signal on the other.  The 12 tone generator chassis plug into these rails.  So does the power supply and preamplifier and a few functions like tremolo.  You can emulate this with modern connectors and aluminum angle or channel stock that you can get at Home Depot.  DIN connectors mount in circular holes, so a hacksaw and a drill are all you need.

For a number of effects, this is certainly cheaper than a bunch of 1590BB's on a pedalboard with $$$ audio cables and connectors between them.